About Including You: A Disability Rights Arkansas Podcast
At Disability Rights Arkansas, we are focused on guidance for people with disabilities - navigating your rights, things that help with your everyday life, and navigating the complex systems of how to get the support you need. In this podcast, Including You, we bring that information directly to you, the listener, on things like accessibility questions, career and care, and even the nuances of love life with a disability. Everyone has the right to know their rights, everyone - Including You.
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Navigating IEPs: A Beginner's Guide to Special Education
Send us a text Demystifying the IEP process stands at the heart of educational advocacy for students with disabilities. In this comprehensive conversation with Kyla Bishop, staff attorney at Disability Rights Arkansas, we unpack the legal framework, timeline, and practical aspects of Individualized Education Plans that every parent and educator should understand. Many families first encounter special education through a medical diagnosis or teacher recommendation, but few realize an IEP is a...
4 Apr 2025
Getting to Know HCBS (Home and Community Based Services)
Send us a text What if I told you there was a time when people with disabilities were routinely hidden away in institutions, segregated from society with no meaningful options for living independently? In this eye-opening episode, DRA staff attorney Derek Henderson takes us on a journey through the evolution of disability rights and services, focusing on the game-changing system known as Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). Derek explains how shocking exposés of institutional abuse in t...
13 Feb 2025
Navigating Love: Dating with Disabilities
Send us a text What if navigating the dating world could be as empowering as it is challenging, especially when visible disabilities come into play? Join us as we sit down with Disability Rights Arkansas team members, co-host Jamie, and our insightful guests Wensday Kramer and Sherice Smith, to explore the evolving landscape of dating with disabilities. We discuss the pros and cons of online and in-person dating, as Wednsday shares her journey of stepping away from dating apps, and Sherice hi...
31 Jan 2025
Including You in the Arkansas Legislative Process
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15 Jan 2025
It's the Little Things
Send us a text[It's the Little Things: A Conversation about Accessibility Annoyances]In this episode, we dive into the shared yet unique experiences of navigating life with disabilities. While our individual journeys differ in onset and nature, we all agree on one thing: life is never boring. From the amusing to the absurd, we unpack the well-meaning but misguided comments, awkward encounters, and everyday frustrations that come with living in a world that doesn’t always get it. Join us as we...
22 Dec 2023
Including You In the Holidays
Send us a textWelcome to a special episode of 'Including You', where we discuss creating an inclusive holiday experience that goes far beyond the wrapping paper and ribbons. Hear from Mollie Hernandez and Jen Goodwin share how to make sure your holiday activities are inclusive for all. We cover everything from accommodating food sensitivities with grace to ensuring the physical space is navigable for guests with disabilities. And because no holiday is complete without the shared experience of...
6 Dec 2023
Navigating Employment: Empowerment and Advocacy for Individuals with Disabilities
Send us a textHave you ever felt the weight of underrepresentation or wondered how to navigate the workplace with a disability? Join us as we bring the conversation to the forefront with the employment team at Disability Rights Arkansas. Wednesday, Molly, and Jen discuss their personal journeys navigating employment with a disability. They pull back the curtain on the obstacles faced and their battles for representation.As we delve deeper, we shift the spotlight to self-advocacy and building ...
3 Aug 2023
Inclusive Disaster Preparedness
Send us a textNatural disasters can happen anywhere and to anyone – they don’t discriminate. But when the power is out, transportation is limited, or you are isolated from others – it can be detrimental to the disability community. We are here with Logan Perkes, from Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA, to talk about how FEMA can help people with disabilities and how we can prepare in case of said disasters. Guest: Logan Perkes, Management Analyst | Portfolio Disability Integrati...
14 Jul 2023
Unpacking Accessible Travel Tips: Part 2
Send us a textIn part 2 of our travel series, we start at the beginning – where you stay and things to consider when booking it – whether that is a hotel, Air B&B or VRBO. We are also highlighting some great tips to be sure you can truly be involved in your next beach or ski trip.GuestsJen Goodwin - Staff Attorney, Disability Rights ArkansasMollie Goodwin - Advocate, Disability Rights ArkansasHelpful LinksVisit our WebsiteAccessibility at AR State ParksInteragency Access PassiCANNat...
28 Jun 2023
Unpacking Accessible Travel Tips: Part 1
Send us a textSummer has officially kicked off, and for a lot of people, that means travel. We don’t want that to intimidate anyone. Today our guests will share not just tips but real-world experiences from their travels, good and bad. Guests: Mollie Hernandez, AdvocateJen Goodwin, Staff AttorneyHelpful Links: US Department of State – Bureau of Consular AffairsUS Department of Transportation Air Carrier Access ActADA ResourcesDOT 2021 Air Travel Complaint DataTravel TipsAc...
30 May 2023
Words Matter. Mental Health Matters.
Send us a textDid you know that 1 in 5 Americans experience a mental health illness in a given year? Despite its prevalence, individuals with a mental health diagnosis are still fighting to eliminate the stigma around mental health and getting treatment. Ableist language has become common vernacular with words tossed around like “crazy” and “insane.” I am joined today by Cory Bates-Rogers, Roger Isbell, and Tom Masseau to discuss this mental health crisis.Note: There is a trigger warning for ...
13 Apr 2023
Dating: The Right to Be Choosy
Send us a textIn this episode, we're getting personal. We were talking about the subject that makes your palms all sweaty and weak in the knees, yep, we're talking dating. Everyone has a right to date. They have a right to be single, to be choosy, and it's even okay to feel lonely too. Guests: - Wensday Kraemer, Self-Advocates Network Development (SAND) Project Coordinator for the Arkansas Alliance for disability advocacy at DRA Helpful Links: Self-Advocates Network ...
28 Feb 2023
Your Family, Your Rights
Send us a textThere is a stigma around people with disabilities. Many believe people with disabilities don’t deserve a family life or can’t handle it. I am joined today by Julie Petty – a wife, a mom, and a strong self-advocate here to break down that stigma. Guests:Julie Petty, Initiatives on Access and Justice - Partners for Inclusive CommunitiesHelpful Links: Visit our WebsiteUsing People First LanguageSupport the showContact DRA Subscribe to our newsletter Stay connected...
31 Jan 2023
Informed Choices, Supported Decisions.
Send us a textLife is about informed decisions. The question is - whose life is affected by those decisions? Whose rights are stripped? In this episode, we are diving deeper into alternatives to guardianship, more specifically, supported decision-making. Today we are joined by self-advocate Jordan Anderson, whose entire life was uniquely impacted by an overnight decision to support his rights. We are also joined by Hezzy Smith, Director of Advocacy Initiatives at the Harvard Law School Projec...
20 Jan 2023
Fears of the Unknown: Alternatives to Guardianship
Send us a textToday we are talking about changing mindsets and allowing everyone the opportunity to succeed or fail. Guardianship refers to the legal role given to an individual to manage the personal activities or resources of another person who "cannot do so on their own." What happens when we shift the conversation from complete control over someone's life to supported decision-making? Guests: Sarah Carmany, Self-Advocate of Michigan, SABE Board Member, Youth Ambassador Program Traine...
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